THE SHIPWRECKED (244 pp.)—Graham Greene—Viking ($3). In 1935 a little-known English writer published his seventh novel, England Made Me. The critics brushed it off with mild praise; a writer whose ...
THE QUIET AMERICAN (249 pp.)—Graham Greene—Viking ($3.50). At first glance, Graham Greene seems to have changed his theme. His recent novels—The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter, The End ...
Mewshaw, whom the longtime NPR book commentator Alan Cheuse once called “the best novelist in America nobody knows,” mentions both of these books in his memoir. In writing about Iyer’s book, Mewshaw ...